A Christian attorney and pro-family activist is ripping the Hawkeye State's highest court for manufacturing new law from thin air -- and in the process bringing West Coast immorality to the nation's heartland.
Iowa residents are waking up to the reality of court-imposed same-gender "marriage." On Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the state's ban on homosexual marriage violates the constitutional rights of homosexual couples. That decision makes Iowa the third state where such unions are legal. Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel, tells OneNewsNow the Iowa Supreme Court has officially entered the "judicial activism hall of shame" with the decision. "They have followed in the footsteps [of] a very small gaggle of extremist left-wing activists here -- judicial activists in California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut -- and have created, from thin air, a phantom right to the ridiculous, oxymoronic, and post-modern concept of so-called 'same-sex marriage,'" Barber says bluntly. Although a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the subject does not impact Iowa's decision, Barber contends it nevertheless long ago rejected the untenable notion that "equal protection" requires that two biologically incompatible persons must be permitted to marry. "So it's no more discriminatory to disallow two men from marrying each other than it is to prohibit a man from marrying his house plant," he offers. The Liberty Counsel attorney refers to the Iowa court's action as "judicial legislation," accusing it of unconstitutionally manufacturing law from the bench. "[The] Iowa Supreme Court cast aside any semblance of judicial restraint doing exactly that which the U.S. Supreme Court detested," he says in a press release. "It has infected the wholesome heartland with the same malady eating away at natural marriage, family, and morality at our nation's coastal and ideological fringes." Barber goes on to say that if people feel like the California fight for traditional marriage was a huge battle, they should hold on to their hats. "Something tells me the fine folks of Iowa don't cotton to seven black-robed autocrats supplanting mid-western values with San Francisco vice," he warns. In fact, the Iowa Family Policy Council is already pressing the Iowa legislature to allow voters to decide the issue of homosexual marriage.
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